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Originally Posted by parmnion
No, it breeds contempt for honest white people
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Our ancestors were colonisers, rapists and more. It is simply a fact of life, what breeds contempt (and I certainly have a lot of it for people who dismiss history) is people being unwilling to accept the facts.
German people are raised knowing exactly what happened in WW2, they do not shy away from uncomfortable truths even though a lot of people alive today would not have been during WW2. They do this because they understand it can never happen again.
America's history is rooted in slavery and racism and to teach American history without touching on that is not teaching history at all, it's teaching a fairy tale to people who don't want the truth.
History is dark and twisted and full of lessons for us to learn from, to ignore it because some white people can't accept the truth of their lineage is just immature and dangerous.